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An anonymous reader writes "Jon Lech Johansen, who reverse engineered FairPlay back in January, and wrote the decryption code that was later used by an anonymous developer to create the playfair utility, has released a similar utility: DeDRMS. It's only 230 lines. T-shirts anyone?"

NOBODY expects it to be written in C#!! Its chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Its two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency... Its three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to Redmond... Its four... no... Amongst its weapons... Amongst its weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise... I'll try posting some other time.

I might expose myself to legal liability under the DMCA if I were to use my +2 karma bonus to publicly point out that a copy of the DeDRMS code may be found buried in the parent AC post (currently at 0, and NOT posted by myself) that I am replying to. The DMCA would expressly forbid such a reply informing others of the existence of such a post.

Therefore, I wish to state emphatically that the parent contains no C# whatsoever and should not be moderated up as Informative, cut, pasted, compiled, or disseminated.

Exactly. There was a strip along the same lines a while back. Wally said something like "everything should be available free on the internet and creators should make their money from tips." Someone, I don't remember who, replied, "Great idea, we should try that with engineers."

Speaking of RMS, only after about 2 minutes reading the comments do I realize that the tool is called deDRMS, and not deRMS.. I was wondering what sort of joke it was having a tool that would crack "RMS" protected content.